To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.

Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).

The use of rhyming slang has spread beyond the purely dialectal and some examples are to be found in the mainstream British English lexicon and internationally, although many users may be unaware of the origin of those words.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

In Australian slang the term for an English person is " pommy ", which has been proposed as a rhyme on " pomegranate " rhyming with " immigrant ".

The English students are telling their foreign teacher that the slang is a drag and something for old people.

Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).

This process often occurs in English ( e. g. speed or crank for meth ) and is really slang formation, as it often is not intended to substitute a softer term.

The English use of hentai is more similar to the way the Japanese use the slang term エッチ ( H or ecchi ), which refers to any sexually explicit content or behaviour.

Another seemingly fitting explanation is that the term was derived from the UK English slang " the dog's bollocks " or " the mutt's nuts ", meaning " the absolute best ".

Its founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka derived the name from sonus, the Latin word for sound, and also from the English slang word " sonny ", since they considered themselves to be " sonny boys ", a loan word into Japanese which in the early 1950s connoted smart and presentable young men.

The word has been used as such in English slang for hundreds of years.

A slot machine ( American English ), informally fruit machine ( British English ), the slots ( Canadian English ), poker machine or " pokies " ( slang ) ( Australian English and New Zealand English ) or simply slot ( American English ) is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed.

* Bogan and Hoon, in Australian and New Zealand English slang

Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a pejorative context to refer to black people, and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts.

* Craic, or crack, Irish, Scottish and English slang for ' fun ', ' joke ', ' gossip ', ' mood '

British English has a slang word for " vegetables " that acts the same way: " veg " with " edge ".

Tracey Emin was born in Croydon to an English mother of Romanichal descentand brought up in Margate.

Roy Hudd, OBE ( born 16 May 1936 in Croydon ) is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment.

Born in Rome to an Italian father and an English mother ( Ivy Webb from Croydon ), Mangano lived in poverty caused by the Second World War.

The latter streets are named after English places ( Croydon, Guildford & Surrey ) and Sir Garnet Road, named in honour of a famous British Army General ( Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, who served a distinguished career and became a hero in the British army in the late 1800s & early 1900 ).

* September 18-Don Juan de la Cierva flies a Cierva C. 8 autogyro from Croydon, England, to Le Bourget, France, making the first crossing of the English Channel in a rotary wing aircraft.

* August 2 – 10 – The English aviatrix and ornithologist Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, her personal pilot C. D. Barnard, and mechanic Robert Little make a record-breaking flight in the Fokker F. VII Spider ( G-EBTS ) of 10, 000 miles ( 16, 103 km ) from Lympne Airport in Lympne, England, to Karachi, then in the British Indian Empire, and back to Croydon Airport in South London, England, in eight days.

* Croydon Athletic F. C., an English football club

Mark Alan Butcher ( born Croydon, London, 23 August 1972 ) is a former English Test cricketer, who played county cricket for Surrey from 1992 until his retirement from the sport in 2009.

* Croydon Athletic F. C., an English football club, based in Thornton Heath, London Borough of Croydon.

* Conflation is where two similar elements of place names become confused, for instance the Old English roots don ( hill ) and den ( valley ) are conflated in place names e. g. Willesden (' stream hill '), Croydon (' crocus valley ').

Leonard William Barden ( born 20 August 1929, Croydon, London ) is an English chess master, columnist, author, and promoter.

* to the south of London and difficult to identify among the continuous housing development of later centuries, there are: Ewell ( a derivative of the Old English Et Welle ), Cheam, Sutton, Carshalton, Wallington, Beddington, Waddon, Croydon, Addiscombe, Elmers End, and Beckenham.

is an English semi-professional football club based in Croydon, Greater London, England.

Alasdair Mackie " Algy " Ward ( born 7 July 1959, in Croydon, Surrey ) is an English rock and roll bass guitarist and singer.

Leon Mark McKenzie ( born 17 May 1978 in Croydon, Greater London ) is a retired English professional footballer, who last played professionally for Kettering Town in December 2011 ; McKenzie came out of retirement in July 2012 to play semi-professionally for Corby Town.

Rishpal Singh Rekhi better known by his stage name Rishi Rich is an English Indian music producer born in Croydon, England and based in London.

Lionel Alfred William Atwill ( 1 March 1885 – 22 April 1946 ) was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, Surrey, England.

Judy Buxton ( born 1949 in Croydon ), is an English actress.

was an English football club based in Thornton Heath in the London Borough of Croydon, London, England.

Alan Raymond Butcher ( born 7 January 1954, Croydon, Surrey, England ) is a former English cricketer who is part of a family known for its strong cricketing connections.

Matthew Fisher ( born Matthew Charles Fisher, 7 March 1946, Addiscombe, Croydon, England ) is an English organist and singer-songwriter, and was responsible for the organ sound on the 1967 single, " A Whiter Shade of Pale " by Procol Harum.

Rich's first public exhibitions were at his studio in Croydon in 1896, followed by showings at the New English Art Club, the Piccadilly Egyptian Hall, the Alpine Club, the Carfax Gallery, the Leicester Galleries and Walker's Galleries.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

In French, and sometimes ( especially earlier ) also in English, the city is known as Aix-la-Chapelle ().

Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

The brown bear is sometimes referred to as the bruin, from Middle English, based on the name of the bear in History of Reynard the Fox, translated by William Caxton, from Middle Dutch bruun or bruyn, meaning brown ( the color ).

In English usage, the word bean is also sometimes used to refer to the seeds or pods of plants that are not in the family leguminosae, but which bear a superficial resemblance to true beans — for example coffee beans, castor beans and cocoa beans ( which resemble bean seeds ), and vanilla beans, which superficially resemble bean pods.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

A breathy-voiced phonation ( not actually a fricative, as a literal reading of the IPA chart would suggest ) can sometimes be heard as an allophone of English between vowels, e. g. in the word behind, for some speakers.

In Confucianism, the term " li " (), sometimes translated into English as rituals, customs, rites, etiquette, or morals, refers to any of the secular social functions of daily life, akin to the Western term for culture.

As such, Canadian English and American English are sometimes classified together as North American English, emphasizing the fact that the vast majority of outsiders even from English speaking countries ( and even Canadians and Americans themselves ), cannot distinguish Canadian English from American English by sound.

These dialects are sometimes referred to as New Englishes ( McArthur, p. 36 ); most of them inherited non-rhoticity from Southern British English.

West African English tends to be syllable-timed, and its phoneme inventory is much simpler than that of Received Pronunciation ; this sometimes affects mutual intelligibility with native varieties of English.

In continental Europe, this is sometimes also translated into English as social conservatism.

It is sometimes argued that the greatest contribution that this work made to English literature was in popularizing the literary use of the vernacular, English, rather than French or Latin.

A simple dental click is used in English to express pity or to shame someone, and sometimes to call an animal, and is written tsk!